Our Ancient Wars

Released on by Victor Caston
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  • Our Ancient Wars Book Detail

  • Author : Victor Caston
  • Release Date : 2016-02-05
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 297
  • ISBN 13 : 0472121596
  • File Size : 15,15 MB
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Our Ancient Wars by Victor Caston PDF Summary

Book Description: Many famous texts from classical antiquity—by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer—present powerful and profound accounts of wartime experience, both on and off the battlefield. They also provide useful ways of thinking about the complexities and consequences of wars throughout history, and the concept of war broadly construed, providing vital new perspectives on conflict in our own era. Our Ancient Wars features essays by top scholars from across academic disciplines—classicists and historians, philosophers and political theorists, literary scholars, some with firsthand experience of war and some without—engaging with classical texts to understand how differently they were read in other times and places. Contributors articulate difficult but necessary questions about contemporary conceptions of war and conflict.

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